Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:52:49 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] zerocopy NFS updated |
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:31:50PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
If you need to depend upon a consistent snapshot of what some other thread writes into a file, you must have some locking protocol to use to synchronize with that other thread.
Appends of small-writes (for whatever reason) seems to be atomic, AFAIK nobody gets corrupt apache logs for example.
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